About Us

About Us

About Us

We specialise in Executive Search, Talent Advisory, Capability, Leadership, and Customer Insights. We partner with organisations to align people, leadership, and workforce strategy with business goals — enabling performance, transformation, and sustainable growth.


Our team brings deep expertise in recruitment, organisational development, and leadership effectiveness, built over decades of experience. We partner with clients across the infrastructure, energy, government, and private sectors to navigate complex workforce challenges and build high-performing teams.


Our services span executive and project-critical appointments, capability reviews, strategic workforce planning, and flexible contractor and consultant solutions. We engage directly with end users to surface frontline insights, ensuring our strategies are grounded in real outcomes.


Through a combination of industry networks, market intelligence, and emerging technologies, we enable our clients to access the right capability — at the right time.

Who we are

ProNEXUS is led by Nik Ruparel and
Sossi Green — senior talent and advisory professionals with over 50 years of combined experience across Australia and international markets.

Nik Ruparel 

“I love building relationships with people who excel at what they do. For the past two decades I’ve been uncovering exceptional talent for global corporations across the infrastructure sector, private equity, and government. I’m proud to say I’ve built real partnerships. Giving that personal, bespoke service is what it’s all about.”

Sossi Green

I bring deep experience across complex, technical sectors — including infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, enterprise technology, and governance. My work spans talent advisory, workforce planning, succession, and organisational change, with a focus on aligning people strategy to business priorities in high-performance environments.



I’ve supported large-scale projects, advised on executive capability and organisational effectiveness, and built trusted relationships with senior leaders through a grounded, commercial perspective and a collaborative, outcome-driven approach.

WHAT WE THINK

Stay connected with some

of our latest thinking

workorce planning

Workforce Planning: More Than a Spreadsheet Exercise

By SG • August 21, 2025
Workforce planning is often reactive, not strategic. With vacancies high and skills gaps widening, future-focused planning is critical.
Naigating odays

Closing the Gap: Labour, Talent, and the Energy Transition

By SG • August 21, 2025
By 2035, demand for project professionals could exceed 65 million worldwide, leaving a shortfall of up to 30 million. Explore how global skills gaps, sector pressures, and labour market dynamics are reshaping talent strategies in 2025.

Broader industry contribution

June 7, 2023
Attraction and retention “How to attract and retain talent, in the scope of major infrastructure projects” for Australian Local Government Infrastructure Yearbook 2021 https://algiy.partica.online/algiy/algiy-2021/flipbook/122/ Major Projects Conference 2022 https://www.nswconference.com.au/speakers.html Webinar Webinar briefing – sample of what we have delivered in the past (targeted at Graduates) in partnership with AIPM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7tNN0_tbU Are employers spending sufficient time supporting staff and building a resilient culture? What’s an acceptable staff turnover – none, 6%, 15%? https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6833872083806769152/ The Future of PMOs - PMO Vision 2030 ProNEXUS were of the PMO Vision 2030 - The Future of PMOs Workshop. The workshop was to discuss the impact and effectiveness of a PMO/EPMO function as part of the Association of International Project Management Officers (AIPMO). Feedback/what to expect from us: Extremely relevant. Massive importance trying to retain & employ Loved the presenter’s style and outlook The conversation style flowed very well Presented really well. The casual approach made for easy and open Conversation. Very relevant topic Engaging speaker, supported by presentation that was shared post meeting Good interaction, more of a conversation than a typical presentation. Nik was excellent. Great perspective and good tips There was some robust discussion particular around different views. Challenging member views was very good The casual approach made for easy and open Conversation. Good speaker, very interactive The feedback was very positive and averaged the following ratings out of 10 for your presentation:  Relevance of Topic: 9.2 Guest Speaker: 9.5